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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Chimera",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I just wanted to let the CoG know that it should be a balance. When you receive funding from the exchequer, it is a huge balance between how you put those funds to use and how the citizens want the funds to be applied. It is wrong for certain leaders to purport that the Senate or individual Senators are against certain programme. It is foolish of a leader to ever imagine that we are against what they are doing in the respective counties. We send money to the counties because the whole hallmark of Government expenditure, especially matters county financing and expenditure, is premised on the public participation principle. If people decide that they want to set aside a certain allocation to run a certain programme, be it road maintenance, healthcare or provision of bursaries, we have no business as Senators. I also have no business as Raphael Chimera Mwinzagu, Senator from Kwale County, to say that I am opposed to that particular idea. I want to make it clear. Let it go on record that I support what governors are doing. I support governors running bursary and agricultural programmes. I support the Financing Locally-Led Climate Action (FLLoCA) Programme. I also support climate change and resilience programmes. We support them because the people of Kwale and many other counties have put their voice to make sure that funds are expended in a particular manner. For somebody to say that we are against is not true. There is a conversation about making sure that there is free education for everyone but I do not think it is right. When this Bill becomes law, do not feel that Sen. Chimera and Sen. (Prof.) Ojienda brought forth a law that strained the resources to manage these academies. I am happy that Sen. Sifuna has given that cure. There will be one per cent from the shareable revenue that will make sure that monies are available for our county sporting activities. I know they will ask why we are burdening them with more duties and roles, especially the financial burden, because those academies must have committees as The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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